Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

I-2 Index
Anderson, Kevin, 24
Anderson, Laurie, 271
Anderson, Robert, Tea and Sympathy, 35
András, Visky, 163
Angels in America (Kushner), 22, 35, 74–75,
129, 157, 266
animism, 190
Anna in the Tropics (Cruz), 260
Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin), 245
Annunciation (1439 production), 107
Anouilh, Jean
Antigone, 30
The Rehearsal, 314
antagonist (opposer of the action), 23
Antigone (Anouilh), 30
Antigone (Sophocles), 13, 33
antirealism theatre, 220–221
directors of, 146–148
era of stylization, 224
era of theatrical isms, 222–223
plays representing stylizations, 224–239
postmodernism, 223
symbolist beginnings of, 221–222
Antoine, André
The Butchers presentation, 221
as director of realism, 146
Théâtre Libre (Paris) founded by, 146, 218,
221, 293
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 49, 50, 51
Anything Goes (Porter), 242, 243
Apollo Theatre, 90
Appel, Libby, 106
Appia, Adolphe, 93
applied drama, 276, 278
Arbus, Arin, 276, 278
Arden, Michael, 251
Arguendo (Elevator Repair Service production),
190, 271–272, 272
Arianda, Nina, 38, 124
Aristophanes
plays referred to as Old Comedy, 195
satire used by, 25
Aristotle
dramaturgy of the Royal era influenced by,
204
horizontal timeline analysis by, 31–36
on music as the fifth component of tragedy,
240
Oedipus story by, 22, 23
Poetics, 20, 194
six components of tragedy identified by,
27–31
on spectacular theatre, 269
as theatre critic, 312
vertical axis analysis of drama by, 27–31
Armbruster, Heidi, 48
Arrabal, Fernando, 232
Arroyo, Gloria, 312
art. See theatre art
“The Art of the Theatre,” 147–148
Art (Reza), 288, 303, 304
Artaud, Antonin
influence on Peter Brook, 304
The Jet of Blood, 230–231
on spectacular theatre, 269, 271
The Theatre and Its Double, 230
artistic discipline, 55
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 200
Ash, Devon, 184
Ashford, Robert, 94, 157, 169
Asian theatre, 205–206
Asian American theatre, 260, 262, 266
Chinese xiqu (tuneful theatre), 76, 125,
207–209, 207, 208
comparing Western and, 205–206
drama of India, 206, 207
drama of Japan, 209–213
Indonesian wayang kulit (shadow puppet),
30, 283
makeup used by, 126
The Peony Pavilion (16th-century kungu
masterpiece), 207
Assassins (Sondheim), 249
assistant stage managers (ASMs), 141
Astor Place Theatre, 280
At Any Cost (Williamson), 296, 298
Atlanta Stage 2 (New York), 238
Atuona, Diana Nnekaa, Liberian Girl, 261
Auburn, David, Proof, 288
audience
American Sign Language (ASL) for hearing
impaired, 267
ancient Greek theatre, 194
international theatre increasing availability to
a global, 294–295
as observant, informed, sensitive, demanding,
and articulate, 318–319
The Audience (Morgan), 288
auditions, 55–56
August: Osage County (Letts), 40, 288,
289, 291
August, John, Big Fish, 114
Australian theatre, 296, 298
Autry Theatre (Griffith Park, Los Angeles), 262
Avenue Q (Lopez), 133, 153, 253, 254, 284
Avery, Rachel, 135
Avian, Bob, 247
Les Aviateurs, 262–263
Avignon Theatre Festival, 13, 162, 163, 275, 301
Awake and Sing (Odets), 220
Ayckbourn, Alan
Absurd Person Singular, 237
Bedroom Farce, 235–237, 236
as English dramatist, 295
House and Garden, 237
The Norman Conquests, 237
Babes in Arms (Rodgers and Hart), 243
Babes in Toyland (Herbert), 243
Babidge, Alice, 118
The Bacchae (Euripides), 194
Bad Dates (Rebeck), 83
Bailiwick Theatre (Chicago), 272
Baker, Annie, 258
The Flick, 291
Baker, Becky Ann, 172
Balconville (Fennario), 262
The Bald Soprano (Ionesco), 27
Baldwin, James, 77
Baltimore Waltz (Vogel), 71
Bancroft, Ann, 41
Bandhu, Pun, 77
Baraka, Amiri
Dutchman, 258
The Toilet, 258
Barecca, Christopher, 93–94
Barlow, David, 238
Barrault, Jean-Louis, 231
Barrie, James, Peter Pan, 168, 221
Barry, Sebastian
The Steward of Christendom, 296
Whistling Psyche, 296
Bart, Roger, 14
Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 256, 302
Bassett, Angela, 261, 269
The Battle of Stalingrad (Gabriadze), 283
Bausch, Pina, 280, 306
Beach, Gary, 14
Beames, David, 316
Beatriz, Stephanie, 262
Beatty, John Lee, 172
Beautiful, 288
The Beautiful Game (Webber), 10, 252
Beauty and the Beast (Mitchell production), 307
Beauty and the Beast (musical), 250
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
(McDonagh), 296
Bechdel, Alison, 254
Beckett, Samuel
Breath, 21
Endgame, 29, 29, 233, 316
Happy Days, 241, 316
life of, 233
Malone Dies, 233
Molloy, 233
Not I, 3
Play, 106
theatre of the absurd work by, 232–233
The Unnamable, 233
Waiting for Godot, 3, 27, 34, 35, 49, 51, 72,
88–89, 91, 96, 117, 231, 232–233, 241,
288, 293, 316
Bedroom Farce (Ayckbourn), 235–237, 236
Behan, Brendan, 296
Behanding in Spokane (McDonagh), 105, 296
Beier, Karin, 313
Beijing (Peking) opera, 208
Belasco, David, 146
Belasco Theatre (New York), 140
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach), 243
The Belle of Amherst, 281
Belushi, Jim, 124
Bennett, Alan
The History Boys, 100, 101
The Madness of George III, 25
Bennett, Fran, 269
Bennett, Michael, A Chorus Line, 117, 242,
247, 248
Bennison, Gwyn Conoway, 293
Bent (Sherman), 267
Bérain, Jean, 91
Bergman, Ingmar, 249
Berkoff, Steven
Kvetch, 30
Metamorphosis, 304
Berkshire Theatre Festival, 292
Berlin, Irving, Annie Get Your Gun, 245
Berliner Ensemble theatre, 15, 298
Bernstein, Leonard
On the Town, 245, 288
West Side Story, 245, 247, 248
Betts, Daniel, 236
Bevilacqua, Patrick, 121, 122
Bharata Muni, Natyasastra, 206
Biehl, Jennifer, 177
Big Fish (August), 114
Big Fish (Stroman production), 248
Big River (Deaf West performance), 268
Billy Elliott (Hall and John), 253
Bingo (Bond), 49, 51
Bird, Tim, 135
Black Comedy (Shaffer), 30
The Black Crook (1866 musical), 242